Japanese trumpet vase with coiling dragons

An image of Vase. Unknown maker, Japan. Trumpet vase with coiling dragons. Hard-paste porcelain, thrown and decorated with applied modelling and painting underglaze in blue. Mark: ‘Dai Nippon Hirado San’. Japanese, Hirado. Circa 1850.

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Vase. Unknown maker, Japan. Trumpet vase with coiling dragons. Hard-paste porcelain, thrown and decorated with applied modelling and painting underglaze in blue. Mark: ‘Dai Nippon Hirado San’. Japanese, Hirado. Circa 1850.

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Accession Number: C.8-1986
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 769 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 325.55kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2012:10:16 12:03:45

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19th Century blue and white ceramics coiled coiling coils dragons Fitz_AA glazed hard-paste porcelain Japanese model modelled porcelain studio ceramics thrown trumpet vase underglaze vase

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